Monthly Archive for March, 2008

: March, 2008

I am imagining us looking back at the end of this season, thinking about how this game against the Rangers was a microcosm of what to expect from the whole season: tough, a little ugly, but ultimately rewarding. There were definitely some serious shortcomings today. Bedard’s outing sure felt like a lot more than a one-earned-run performance. I can’t imagine anyone was thrilled with our base running. Our offense looked a little shaky, and for that matter so did our defense. …

It has finally arrived. Here we are, mere hours away from Opening Day. We’ve got our big name pitcher ready, we’ve had a fairly productive spring, and there’s even a little national buzz about this team surprising everybody as a dark horse playoff contender. So the big question is, are you excited? …

It’s pretty well-known that baseball is a ridiculously superstitious sport. In the face of this fact, it’s hard to think of a dumber thing to do than openly laughing at your opponent’s misfortune. If you want to invite destiny to come and deal you a more disastrous hand than the one just handed to your division rival, that’s definitely the way to do it. So I am going to try really really hard to stop feeling happy about the Angels and their pitching woes. …

I have been on a self-imposed blogging strike until Ichiro got his first spring training hit. But once I got the emails announcing this year’s commercials, I was thinking I might have to break it, because I have to comment on the commercials. But since when has Ichiro been the sort to let me down? The commercials came out on Wednesday night, and lo and behold, Ichiro got a hit on Thursday afternoon. Hurrah! He’s one for twenty-two folks, let the batting title chatter begin! And I’m only partly kidding. Oh look, in the time it took me to type that, he just got another hit against the Rockies. …

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